Welcome to Sweden, Eldorado for Migrants!

From the perspective of a poor migrant, the cash Sweden gives to all who come seems a lot of money, without working a single day to get it. This makes Sweden a paradise for the migrants of the world who do not want to work. The Swedish taxpayer pays for this party.

Recently, the city of Malmö bought 268 apartments, so newly arrived migrants would have a roof over their head. But at the same time, Swedish citizens in Malmö have to wait more than three years in line to rent an apartment.

While Swedish taxpayers are forced to fund all these benefits for migrants, the migrants do not have to adapt to the Swedish way of living.

In 2015, the proportion of rapes where the police actually found the suspect was 14%. In 86% of the rapes, the rapist got away.

It needs to become clear that the responsibility for becoming integrated into Swedish society rests entirely on the newly-arrived migrants. Migrants who do not receive a residence permit must go home or somewhere else.

In 2016, Sweden received 28,939 asylum seekers. Sweden is a predominantly Christian country in northern Europe, and yet most asylum seekers to Sweden came from three Muslim countries in the Middle East: Syria (5,459), Afghanistan (2,969) and Iraq (2,758). Why is it that people from these three Muslim countries choose to cross Europe to come to Sweden? What is it that Sweden offers that attracts people from the other side of the world?

It is not the major metropolises in Sweden that attract these people. 56% of Sweden's land area is covered by forest. Besides the Swedish capital Stockholm, there is no Swedish city with more than 1 million inhabitants. Sweden's average annual temperature is around 3°C (37.4°F), so it is not the weather that attracts tens of thousands of people from Muslim countries to Sweden.

What Sweden provides is economic and social benefits for all who come. Sweden is a country where the state pays newly-arrived migrants to encourage them to enter the community and seek jobs. If you receive a residence permit as a refugee, quota refugee or person with "subsidiary protection," you get up to $35 (308 SEK) a day, five days a week, if you participate in a so-called "establishment plan." So, the newly arrived migrant does not even have to work to get this money; the only thing he or she needs to do is to accept the help that the Public Employment Service provides. The newly-arrived migrant receives an "establishment allowance" (etableringsersättning) during his first two years in Sweden. After two years, the migrant is still entitled to all the benefits of the Swedish welfare state.

The migrants who receive this kind of establishment allowance can also get a supplementary establishment allowance (etableringstillägg) if they have children. They will get $91 a month (800 SEK) for each child under the age of 11, and $170 (1500 SEK) for each child who has reached the age of 11. A newly-arrived immigrant can get this supplementary establishment allowance for three children at most. If a newly-arrived immigrant has more than three children, then only the three oldest children count. The newly arrived immigrant can receive a maximum of $509 dollars (4500 SEK) a month through this supplementary establishment allowance.

So, if somebody lives in poverty in an Arab country and has several children, there is every reason to try to get a residence permit in Sweden. From the perspective of a poor migrant, that seems a lot of money to cash in, and one does not have to work a single day to get it. This makes Sweden a paradise for the migrants of the world who do not want to work. The Swedish taxpayer pays for this party.

If you accept the help of the Public Employment Service and start looking for a job, as a newly arrived migrant, you will also get help to pay the rent. If a newly arrived migrant has a rent of $396 (3500 SEK), the state pays $192 (1700 SEK). This is called the housing allowance (bostadsersättning).

It is not, however, only newly-arrived migrants with residence permits that receive economic and social benefits. Migrants who do not have residence permits also receive economic and social benefits. Since July 2013, immigrant children who live illegally in Sweden have the right to go to school.

In addition, also since July 2013, illegal immigrants have the right to state-funded health care, dental care, contraception counseling, and maternity care, as well as care in case of abortion. The illegal immigrant is also entitled to transportation to and from health care facilities, and also an interpreter. All children, in fact, who are living illegally in Sweden are offered the same health care and dental care, and under the same conditions, as children who are Swedish citizens.

The strange thing is that illegal immigrants pay lower fees for their medical and dental care than Swedish citizens pay. This is something that has upset many Swedish senior citizens, as 355,000 Swedish senior citizens live below the European Union's poverty line. It is not certain that these senior citizens can afford dental care at all, while at the same time, illegal immigrants receive dental care by paying a fee of $6 (50 SEK). In Malmö, Sweden's third largest city, the children of illegal immigrants receive full income support, and illegal migrants who have children have their entire rent paid by the municipality.

Since January 1, 2016, Sweden also has a law that offers children free medication. This law also applies to children seeking asylum in Sweden and children in Sweden illegally.

Children who come to Sweden and receive a residence permit further have the right to a "survivor pension" (efterlevandepension) if their parents have died. If the parents have never worked or lived in Sweden, the child will receive $167 (1477 SEK) per month, or $335 (2954 SEK) per month, if both parents are deceased. This is paid by the Swedish Pension Agency (Pensionsmyndigheten).

These are just some of the economic and social benefits that both legal and illegal migrants receive as soon as they set foot on Swedish soil.

So, if you live in an African country and want your child to go to school, Sweden will provide free education for your children, whether you have permission to stay in Sweden or not. If you are sick and cannot afford to go to the hospital, Sweden will provide free health care, whether you have the right to be in Sweden or not.

Recently, the city of Malmö bought 268 apartments with the taxpayers' money, so newly arrived migrants would have a roof over their heads. But at the same time, Swedish citizens have to wait more than three years in line to rent an apartment in Malmö. The reason that people from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq cross the entire European continent to come to Sweden is because Swedish politicians have given them every reason to come. From the day that a newly arrived migrant enters Sweden, the authorities at all levels of government throw money at him, with access to free health care and education. Why shouldn't he come? Sweden's current policies offer a free ticket to a better life for all poor migrants who come to Sweden, and the Swedish taxpayer foots the bill.

While migrants get all these benefits, there are not many obligations. Sweden is a multicultural society. This means that many of the migrants do not feel any loyalty to the Swedish culture, but retain their own culture within Swedish society. While Swedish taxpayers are forced to fund all these benefits for illegal and legal migrants, the migrants do not have to adapt to Swedish way of living. Instead, the Swedes not only have to pay for the migrants, but also seem required to adapt to them.

Screenshot from a government-sanctioned video propagating "new Swedes will claim their space, bringing their culture, language and habits, and it's time to see this as a positive force" and "old [native] Swedes have to integrate as well" in this new reality.

Meanwhile, Sweden has a critical shortage of police officers, which means that it is easy to commit crimes and get away with them. If one would, against all expectations, get caught, the punishment in Sweden is not harsh. If someone is convicted of rape, he would be incarcerated from two to six years. In 2015, the proportion of rapes where the police actually found the suspect was 14%. This means that in 86% of the rapes, the rapist got away. The police could simply not do their job because lack of resources and poor leadership.

Many might say that it is racist to associate migrants with sexual crimes. The Swedish police published a report in June 2016 which gave a status report of sexual abuse. In the report, one can read the following quote:

"In cases where the crimes were carried out by offenders in a larger group in public places and in public swimming pools the perpetrators have been mainly youngsters who have applied for or have recently received asylum in Sweden."

Although Sweden has a more restrictive immigration policy than the liberal migration policy it had before the migration crisis began, Sweden continues to have a welfare and integration policy towards newly arrived immigrants that functions as a magnet and draws less-educated immigrants to Sweden. Those who come to Sweden seem to be seeking a country that provides many entitlements but not many obligations. People seeking success go to the UK, Canada or the United States, while it often appears as if people who want to break the rules choose to come to Sweden.

As long as Sweden gives migrants all these benefits and demands so little back, Sweden will be the ideal country for the world's opportunists and freeloaders. The benefits of immigration, such as a well-educated workforce, economic growth and increased entrepreneurship, will not contribute to Sweden, because through its welfare and integration policies Sweden is attracting migrants who are either unwilling or unable to make an effort.

According to Eurostat figures from 2015, the unemployment rate among foreign nationals in Sweden was 20.1 percent, while Swedish citizens had an unemployment rate of 5.7 percent. Only three other countries in the European Union -- France, Spain and Greece -- had a higher unemployment rates among their foreign nationals than Sweden.

Among foreign nationals who were citizens of a non-EU country, Sweden had an unemployment rate of 29.3 percent. Only two other countries in the European Union -- Spain and Greece -- had a higher figure than Sweden. If you look at the unemployment rate among Sweden's own citizens, Sweden has EU's second-lowest unemployment rate.

Many would say that this might indicate that there is discrimination in the Swedish labor market. A major investigation (Långtidsutredningen 2015) by the Swedish Ministry of Finance, published in 2015, made the assessment that the Swedish labor market mainly rewards individuals' skills, and as a whole does not seem to be characterized by ethnic discrimination. The investigation also made the assessment that in many instances, persons who are born outside Sweden and have higher education from their countries of birth, need further education in Sweden to become established in the Swedish labor market.

The problem therefore is not discrimination; it is that migrants who come to Sweden lack the proper education to enter the Swedish labor market.

A restrictive immigration policy is not enough for Sweden. As long as Sweden has all these benefits for illegal immigrants and newly-arrived migrants, the most opportunistic and sometimes the most unmotivated migrants will make every effort to come.

Migrants who stay in Sweden even though they do not have permits should not be rewarded. Migrants should not get paid because they are accepting support from the government to find jobs. These kinds of benefits need to be phased out and eventually eliminated.

It needs to become clear that the responsibility for becoming integrated into the Swedish society rests entirely on the newly arrived migrants. Migrants who do not receive a residence permit should go home or somewhere else. If this does not happen, it could lead to a crisis for the Swedish welfare state and the social rights of the Swedish people. Many Swedes would say that this welfare crisis has already begun.

Nima Gholam Ali Pour is a member of the board of education in the Swedish city of Malmö and is engaged in several Swedish think tanks concerned with the Middle East. He is also editor for the social conservative website Situation Malmö. Gholam Ali Pour is the author of the Swedish book "Därför är mångkultur förtryck"("Why Multiculturalism is Oppression").

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36 Reader Comments

Angela deVictoria • Apr 4, 2017 at 09:46

Thank you for this article! It really confirms to me what the problems are in Sweden in regards to immigration! When President Trump mentioned Sweden suggesting there were problems, the President of Sweden denied any problems and acted like our President was speaking out of his hat! I am very sad for all the children and adults fleeing their countries! It is a horrible situation for them !! I hope all countries could come up with a plan that would work for all concerned!

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Sarah Redshaw • Feb 23, 2017 at 19:46

The main assumption here is that migrants do not want to work. They just want to receive welfare and do nothing. This is unlikely to be the case. Rather it could be that it is actually very hard for them to get jobs. Right wingers want to believe that people would not choose to work if they receive a little bit of money but this is patently false. Most people would like more out of life than a bit of welfare brings them but are often unable to access the means for a variety of reasons.

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Vincent Fisher • Feb 21, 2017 at 21:24

What is sadly going on in Sweden and other "enlightened" cultures is what Bernie Sanders, the Obamas and other Democrat elitists want to do to our country. White European countries and their former colonies (U.S.A, Australia, etc.) must be punished for the sins of their ancestors. Communism/socialism requires a restructuring of human thinking and that requires either a gulag, mass executions, etc. or what is going on in Sweden. A complacent and cowed native population.I could go on but the one chance of the Swedes to save their nation and their culture is to remember their Viking past. I'd go medieval on the socialist "leaders". I wouldn't harm the immigrants but they'd get the message and simply leave.

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dave • Feb 21, 2017 at 04:38

Among other ideas: immigration is temporary and application and ASSIMILATION are expected!
Never mind 2 years of free money; 6 months to 9 months and the money stops (regardless if you have children), find work, get stable or get out.Asylum. residence and/or citizenship requires registration, visual identification and logistical tracking.Any violation of existing laws is automatic denial of residence and deportation will commence immediately for the person convicted.Finally put your leaders on notice! Get your head out of the sand or get out of office. Don't wait for election time.The EU is a developing failure and Schengen must be revised.YOU left your previous geographic location, now we welcome you to OURS! Our laws reign-now choose; stay or leave. Some FOOD for thought.

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Lynette • Feb 20, 2017 at 22:54

The Swedes are being totally unfair to their existing population - they don't seem to care about them at all. They have invited the lion into their den with all those violent Muslims - yes they will become violent the minute they don't get their own way. They'll smash windows, wreck cars, set fire to rubbish bins and generally behave exactly as they have elsewhere and in the mucky place they came from. Swedes must be unbalanced in the brain since they can't see what is so obvious to everyone else.

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dm • Feb 20, 2017 at 00:20

Excellent article. The freeloading immigrants are obviously being informed and guided as to where the best deal lies. (Traffickers make a lot of money shipping illegal people).

Over the weekend President Trump in a speech mentioned to the world what has happened to Sweden!!! maybe he should have elaborated, mainly to the Swedish Prime Minister, that due to his inaction to protect his people, SWEDEN, HIS COUNTRY!!! WAS SUFFERING FROM RAPE, MURDER AND THE GENERAL TAKE OVER BY THE MUSLIM POPULATION. Let us not forget to mention with the advent of paying out so much money in welfare benefits (money provided by the country's tax payers) there has to be a limit before the whole system collapses and all are on the street and civil war breaks out.

Swedish politicians have the nerve to make a call on Trump comments!!! Maybe Sweden is upset as Trump's comments will bring out what is happening in Sweden.

As the time seems appropriate it might be a good idea for people who have access to information as to what is going on in Sweden, to use whatever media channels they have to show the world what the real situation is in Sweden.

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Hartmut Brocharski • Feb 19, 2017 at 09:39

Although very bad already Sweden is seeing at least some relief due to the fact that these days migrants seemingly prefer Germany for their in parts even more generous social benefits (which includes free housing on top and funding for EVERY minor, even from polygamic families). Plus Sweden - as opposed to Germany - has finally taken steps towards restricting access into their country. Also they got less Africans which in Germany are among the most brutal attackers in the streets and on females.

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kios • Feb 19, 2017 at 01:33

"The benefits of immigration, such as a well-educated workforce, economic growth and increased entrepreneurship, will not contribute to Sweden, because through its welfare and integration policies Sweden is attracting migrants who are either unwilling or unable to make an effort."Therefore Sweden should accept the jobless from Greece, Spain and Portugal who are skilled European citizens that can benefit Sweden and themselves in a win-win situation.

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Gerald Arcuri • Feb 18, 2017 at 16:26

The only factual error in this article is the first sentence. Sweden is most assuredly not a "Christian nation". First of all, there is no such thing. Secondly, Swedes are overwhelmingly secular atheistic humanists. The old Swedish State Lutheran Church is chock full of non-believing ministers and progressive nut cases. It is utterly moribund.

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Luis • Feb 18, 2017 at 16:01

Thanks, Mr Ali Pour/Gatestone, for reminding us of how generous Swedes are--AS A RESULT, I HAVE SOLD MY PROPERTY AND AM MOVING TO SWEDEN, BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO WORK, BUT WANT TO CONTINUE EATING AND LIVING IN A GREAT APARTMENT.

Just kidding! Why would a civilized person, Christian on top of that, want to move to a nation run by fools, fools who will pay for their folly sooner or later, because, as the great Margaret Thatcher said, "socialism is great until it runs out of other people's money." The Swedes "generosity," stupidity actually, cannot be sustained. The rapes by the mohammedan rabid dogs cannot, or should not, be tolerated. And sooner or later, the insistence on instituting sharia, an evil, stupid, vicious ideology--not religion at all--will be wanted by the "immigrants" and "refugees." The Swedes somehow missed the phenomenon which results from attempting to mix oil and water.

The United States has apparently avoided this problem with the election of Trump. Americans now know that the mohammedan invasion can, and will be, stopped. As to rapes, Americans are well armed and mohammedan rapists can, or should, expect to get what they deserve.

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Minette Luis • Feb 20, 2017 at 05:38

Congratulations Luis, I could not have said it better! Am also now relocating to Sweden, land of milk and honey to those who are not interested in contributing to the economy or Sweden as a whole. For poor refugees with no income and nowhere to go, they have the audacity to rape Swedes and commit crimes! The Swedish police force is not incompetent due to poor leadership. They are 'incompetent' because in the "pre-immigrants-are-welcome" Sweden, Sweden had no major crimes. The police force is not equipped to deal with atrocities like this! As for my kara Sverige, wake up!!! You have created a monster that unfortunately seems to stay, if you are not going to act NOW!

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b.a. freeman • Feb 18, 2017 at 14:15

"Many Swedes would say that this welfare crisis has already begun" ... actually, the *conquest* has begun, and is well underway; welfare is just the tool being used for conquest. sweden may recover, but i suspect that at this point, it will take a civil war.

otherwise, sweden will soon become swedistan.

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Henry b.a. freeman • Feb 20, 2017 at 20:19

There will be no civil war in Sweden. What is happening is fully accepted by the population. The gap formed by the lack of the Christian faith and total rejection of God if being filled up by the murderous cult. Welcome to Swedistan.

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GSR • Feb 18, 2017 at 14:03

All the political elites of the Western World, except for Trump, want to flood their (quickly fading) nations with Muslims. This will not end well.

Islam does not belong anywhere except for the Middle East/"Arabia".

Western leaders lack backbone (and sense).

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Pat Walker • Feb 18, 2017 at 13:44

Very frightening, indeed. The unfortunate reality is that after having allowed this to continue for so long, it will be difficult to "reclaim" the country. There is great danger in allowing a sore to fester without curing it. Sometimes it can become a cancer...and spread...

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Patricia Canon • Feb 18, 2017 at 12:46

Our policy makers have intentionally set up an immigration agenda in the US, which is designed to displace American people from the work force. In many blue collar fields, most of the work is now being performed by illegals. In American inner cities, for example, African Americans have been displaced from the work force by illegal immigrants. Liberals tell those who protest these policies that they are "racist". The ironies are endless.

At professional levels, congressional and corporate leaders are using work visas to intentionally replace American people with foreign workers. Donald Trump intends to stop this, though our congress, government bureaucrats and corporate leaders, all of whom masquerade as humanitarians, will for now continue working against him.

We all want to help others, who are less fortunate than we are, but to sacrifice one group in order to save another is cruelly stupid. Someone should tell the insipid liberals.

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Björn Wiklund • Feb 18, 2017 at 12:23

"In 2016, Sweden received 28,939 asylum seekers. "That's true but first the approval doubled and second relatives were granted permits in a giant volume...so the total number of permits, green cards, or such was 150 000 2016

2015 had only 110 000 and so on the Green Cards have been a million in less than 10 (ten) years....

links. https://www.migrationsverket.se/Om-Migrationsverket/Statistik/Oversikter-och-statistik-fran-tidigare-ar/2016.htmlsorry for the swedish but
Nima can perhaps help with the figures and the translationhttps://www.facebook.com/nima.gholam.ali.pour?fref=pb&hc_location=friends_tab&pnref=friends.all

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Kate • Feb 18, 2017 at 11:53

I'm an American and have a high school classmate that lives in Sweden. She has lived there for more than 25 years. According to her, the city in which the immigrant lives gets money from the state for each unemployed person that resides within it which is hardly an incentive to push to people to find a job.

The primary problem in Europe is that its population is aging. The socialist systems in Western Europe require a lot of young people to pay into the system to support these aging Europeans. Many European governments understood that they had a problem and so they decided that the solution would be to bring in a lot of young people from other countries who hopefully would work. The taxes that these immigrants paid would then be used to continue supporting their socialist systems. However, many of these immigrants would prefer to live on welfare as they see it as a form of Jizya to which as Muslims they feel entitled. Thus, I suspect, more money is going out than coming in which will bankrupt Europe governments thereby destroying their economies. This economic destruction is as much a goal of those who wish to spread Islam as is violent jihad. The willful ignorance of many elites, otherwise known as useful idiots, can't see the forest for the trees and are the instruments of their own destruction.

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Silent • Feb 18, 2017 at 11:43

I have read article after article on all the problems in Europe. My only concern is why are the silent majority not speaking up? It is better to be called a racist then to see your homes taken away from you. If the silent majority are silent one can only assume they are silent because they agree with the policies set up by the politicians. Until the silent majority stands up and make their voices heard nothing will change.How sad.

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BillyBob Silent • Feb 20, 2017 at 17:21

Seen in a wider, more cosmic context, what's playing out, both in Sweden and Norway, is the great biblical truth, "Who blesses the Jews is blessed; who curses them is cursed." We see this throughout history, and here it comes again. . .or, rather, still. Sweden and Norway, with very few Jews, have become among the most rabidly anti-semitic nations in the world. That is, of course, mysterious on one level, since there are so few Jews there--esply Norway, which has .003 percent. And, of course, Israel and Jews have done nothing but benefit those countries, not to mention being the only democratic, liberal, peaceful, successful nation in the Middle East. What can explain their feverish, desperate invitation of those who are destroying and ultimately will totally destroy their societies? Logic and common sense suggest that even if they were initially motivated by "humanistic" concerns, those Scandinavians would have learned, after a few hundred of the Muslim rapes, murders, etc., etc.,that their largesse is the wrong tack. They seem addicted to suicide; I say, "Have at it." And so does the Torah. Just as countries like Poland, Spain, and Germany were destroyed due to their Jew (i.e., God) hatred, so will Sweden and Norway see their pathetic, violent ends. And the sooner the better. Schadenfreude, indeed.

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tiki • Feb 18, 2017 at 11:42

Malmö, the city that has purged out it's few intelligent, integrated Swedish/Jewish citizens to make place for thousands of anti Swedish Muslims.

Sweden, the rape capital of Europe, where non Muslim girls are getting attacked for being blond, modern & Swedish.

Sweden, the first European country to recognize 'Palestine' a country that isn't one, proves that the Swedes are suffering from a grave form of the Stockholm Syndrome and still believe, against all odds, they can save themselves from becoming the first Nordic Caliphate. Norway will be nr. 2.

Sweden, this anti Semitic country deserves exactly what it gets!

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Kenneth McBride • Feb 18, 2017 at 11:40

It is astonishing that authorities in Sweden do not realize that they are essentially committing cultural suicide and you would think that Swedes would view what is occurring in Germany, France and U.K. and think twice about what they are exposing their citizens with their excessively liberal immigration policies. I think Charles XII would question present Swedish immigration policies!

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Bobby McGee • Feb 18, 2017 at 11:39

Where is the limit of stupidity of the Swedish authorities ?

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DockyWocky • Feb 18, 2017 at 11:30

If anyone is researching it, this is proof positive that the Viking Gene has been bred out of the Swedish genome.

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Jeff Page • Feb 18, 2017 at 11:27

What a ridiculous thing to say. Old Swedes need to change to suit the Muslim invaders! Are the authorities completely out of their tiny little minds or are they so terrified that they issue this nonsense under the influence of a great deal of alcohol? No excuses whatsoever for this cowardly way of dealing with a serious problem. Are the Swedish men going to stand idly by as their wives and daughters are raped and forced to wear head coverings?
It's time the Swedish men got out onto the streets and began to fight back against all this PC nonsense! Now, not next week!

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Staffan Bodemar • Feb 18, 2017 at 11:02

Nima Gholam Ali Pour is obviously very experienced concerning integration in Sweden, having himself arrived as part of a refugee family in the 1980s. I would only modify his statement that the "responsibility for becoming integrated into the Swedish society rests entirely on the newly arrived migrants." I would change the word "entirely" to "primarily". We native born Swedes also share a responsibility, as we have done in history. Sweden today is not the same as the Sweden when I was born. Society always adjusts and evolves, and immigration is part of that change. But yes, the newcomers bear the main but not the entire responsibility for their integration.

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Juanita Skelton • Feb 18, 2017 at 10:32

How frustrating it must be for Swedes in their country. It sounds like a modern day utopian progressive democracy. I think the original mandate behind Sweden's welfare laws was brilliant. The proof is the low unemployment rate. The very painful obvious "failure" comes when you mix progressive ideas with an out-of-culture group whose lifetime experience is contrary to the progressive mandate. It would be a common misconception for such a progressive democracy to extend that right under many differing assumptions of the type of results they have consistently experienced with their own native Swede people. In other words, they "assumed" their methodology in policy would work wondrous deeds for all who sought in Sweden. It is the social workers DREAM to change lives for the better. It is a strong belief system because it works so well and there is PROOF positive of that!So, now, the hard part for Sweden comes. They must clear away illusions, even though the illusions once were FACT! Now, in comes the politics of denial. Partisan politics will fight over multicultural misconceptions about race, bigotry, and politically correct democratic ideas that deny the true problem which this author has attempted to illuminate.God be with the wisdom of the brilliant job Sweden has done with their people and their welfare policies. If they can accept the statistical truths with a dose of humility, they should be able to stop the flow, with their obvious ability to build a wonderful nation of SWEDISH PEOPLE; and I include in that label those migrating masses of asylum seekers willing to become MORE of a SWEDE than a "seeker".

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Christopher • Feb 18, 2017 at 09:49

This is really quite old Europe and specifically Sweden, for anyone with a shred of common sense or simple self preservation. This is not about helping desperate, needy people anymore, if it ever was. It is about survival. Yours, Europe's, America's. You have to ask what kind of leaders would do this to their people and their nation's interests. Answer, traitorous ones. Wake up and smell the meatballs, they're about cooked.

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Anna Lobler-Polling • Feb 18, 2017 at 09:17

After having read this long article on the rights and rules concerning (il)legal immigrants in Sweden, I started wondering how a sound government could have established those rules, but mainly so many rights, to people of whom a person with just a bit of brain cannot expect, that they 'll ever become real participants of the Swedish community. How naïve, or better how stupid a government can be to let this happen what now is going on in Sweden?! Did no one ever read a book on Islam, did anyone, ever, have some knowledge about Muslims and their behaviour unto so-called heathens, as we all are in the conception of Islam?! Does anyone know how Moslims, once they are in power, will treat the original, autochtone people of Sweden?! I am afraid, that the socialistic government, the Gutmenschen, only have their OWN do-good intentions, without any knowledge of what they are doing in reality to their OWN people, by whom they were elected.God save Sweden, not Allah.

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Jeff Page • Feb 18, 2017 at 07:04

Stupid, silly, naive, are there any in Sweden's governing body that possess just a little common sense and who actually live in the real world? Is the blindingly obvious so difficult to see?What on earth possesses governments to take this path to ruin. Ignore your own people at your peril. There maybe some citizens who will agree with this approach in helping immigrants, but as the numbers of rapes and brutal robberies increase, the mindsets of those wanting to aid "refugees" will dramatically change, and not in the way the government will like!For immigrants to have access to homes and money without putting anything into the economy is so wrong. Okay use disused buildings to house them and ensure they are fed etc, but to buy up houses to put them in when some of your own are in need is like a slap in the face to indigenous people. The crazy thing is that these people will never be grateful, they seem to think it is their right to take from the "infidel" and as for working to give back to society, very few of them will ever do that! They will be working to establish outposts that are "No go areas" to all but Muslims, and they will eventually gain representation in government with a view to gaining complete control within a couple of decades. With the help that the Swedish government are giving their new invaders, it could possibly be a lot sooner. The end is nigh unless the Swedish people stop their politicians in their tracks! They have invited wolves in sheep's clothing into their country, and it will be their downfall!

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Noel Jealous Jeff Page • Feb 18, 2017 at 21:15

Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

Winston Churchill 1899

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Mary Houghton Jeff Page • Feb 20, 2017 at 13:24

The only possible chance of Sweden reversing its demise is for the citizens to vote out the feminists that have accelerated the catastrophic situation Sweden will be in in the not too distant future if things do not change. Already the car burnings, no-go zones are becoming prevalent. They only have to look to France to see what an absolute disaster it has become with the Muslims being absolute in their refusal to integrate into French society. These feminists have systematically brainwashed the Swedish men and I think this has caused physiological changes in them in that they are producing less and less testosterone, therefore becoming physically and mentally weak.

Even the following expression which was first written in 195 B.C still seems to apply today:Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit. "One man to another is a wolf, not a man, when he doesn't know what sort he is."

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Albert Reingewirtz • Feb 18, 2017 at 06:45

Who came up with this stupidity in Sweden? If I was Swede, I am glad I am not (I am Jewish and Sweden would be the last place I would like to visit) Oslo, just the name makes me puke. Well Sweden since you like Islamic migrants so much, Gaza could be a great source of new beneficiaries of the Swedish wisdom.

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Michael Waugh • Feb 18, 2017 at 06:33

The world awaits the dumping of Sweden's rotten politicians, as an example to everyone. How can a decent country go down the drain so quickly ?

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Kari Mantula Michael Waugh • Feb 19, 2017 at 17:55

The amount of solidarity among Nordic countries is underestimated. They made success of welfare countries because of altruism under and after war times. New generation made some success, but people are fed up with self-interest and egoism with that success. People are so tired of hate speech and they are waking up with realisation, that Nordic countries need new entrepreneurship and service society for elderly people, if they do not want deserted areas in their countries, which is also political vacuum to be taken by the Russians, folk they love but want to be out of their border.

Problem is unsuccessful integration. Old habits of public servants make it challenging, people have lot of bias towards strangers, groundless fear of violence and mayhem. For instance in Finland many refugees have a huge problem opening bank account if they get rid of passport when coming, so they cannot work because of no account to get salary and pay taxes and rent, even some of them cannot get their money for food from the bank. Language courses are months away from their arrival. Neighbours do not support immigrants in general, but some voluntary workers are still doing a good job for integration.

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Daniel Less Kari Mantula • Mar 4, 2018 at 08:10

Sweden today is a completely failed State, and this is primarily due to the Socialdemocrats and their friends within the left wing bloc. Up until ca 1985 Sweden was almost an entirely homogenous nation, but during the late -80's and onwards things started to deteriorate dramatically! We recently had a former Prime Minister by the name of Fredrik Reinfeldt who stated publicly that Sweden does not belong to the Swedish people but to the newcomers, i.e. immigrants now pouring in from third world countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and so on. He also stated openly that "Swedes are both uninteresting and unimportant people" and that "there's no such thing as Swedish culture"!

I am not kidding, although it sounds absolutely surreal! This is now the reality in which we live in here in Scandinavia, and Sweden is now going downhill faster and faster. Criticise this and you are very quickly condemned, yes you guessed it, as a racist and ostracised from the rest of Swedish society.

Sweden has a very small Jewish community, ca 20 000 people, of which many are now leaving the country for Israel, as they are no longer feeling safe here anymore. Not surprising really, as this is now the case all over Europe! What never ceases to amaze me though, is the fact that apparently no politician in Western Europe have drawn any conclusions from the civil war in Yugoslavia during the 1990's. It was once the most multicultural country in Europe, and look what happened to it! Mass ethnic cleansing thanks to the fact that different ethnic groups such as Serbs, Croats and Albanian Muslims could not stand the sight of each other in the end. And now it starts all over again, this time due to social engineering by the ruling (Social Democrats) classes in Western Europe. Absolutely unbelievable! Sweden and the rest of Western Europe is heading for a complete disaster. Again!

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